FULL COLOR INLAY with 11 different DENOMINATIONS available, These chips have a full color inlay on each side. The inlay is manufactured into the chip in the same manner as real Las Vegas casino chips.
This set
includes 303 "GOLDFIELD" Inlaid Design 11.5 gram poker chips
(set of 300 poker chips plus 3
spare poker chips),
2 decks of used
Casino Poker cards
& 1 High-End Oak poker
chip case.
The History Behind The Goldfield Poker
Chips
Along
Highway 95 about half-way between Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada is a town called
"Goldfield". It was made famous by the Earp brothers, Wyatt and
Virgil, following their famous gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone.
Wyatt worked as a pit boss at Tex Rickard's famous Northern Saloon &
Gambling Casino in Goldfield and Virgil was the deputy sheriff there until
his death in 1905.
The last
great Goldrush of the 20th century took place in Goldfield between 1905
and 1910. The call of gold and silver had driven people to places like
Goldfield, Nevada. These pioneers were willing to take risks. They came to
Goldfield with high hopes and the will to win land, silver, gold or money
but not only by working.
They were ready to
stake everything on one chance - to wager weeks of savings in a single
evening of poker. Full house! But what's the other guy got in his hand?
Gambling fit in with the wild and disordered life in frontier settlements
and became part of the culture of the West.
Goldfield was the
largest city in Nevada at that time with a population of over 30,000. It
boasted of several gambling saloons including the aforementioned Northern,
with a bar so long it took 80 tenders to serve its customers. It was also
the home of many brothels and the now "haunted" Goldfield Hotel.
At one time, the
Goldfield Hotel was described as the most luxurious hotel between Chicago
and San Francisco, with an elevator, crystal chandeliers and an elegant,
mahogany-trimmed lobby with black leather upholstery and gilded columns.
In August 2003, the hotel was purchased for $360,000. The buyer plans to
refurbish it as possibly a casino conversion project and re-open it to the
public.
By 1920, Goldfield's
heyday embraced both the final days of the western frontier and the
beginning of the automobile age, and it's brief but colorful history
combined elements of both.
These "Goldfield Casino" poker chips capture the flavor of
the Old West but with a more modern look. The Full Color Inlaid
Graphics and 11 different denominations will accomodate any poker
game at any stakes. Wyatt and Virgil Earp would be proud to sit at a
poker table and play poker with these chips.
Welcome your friends
to the Goldfield
Casino! |
The name "Goldfield Casino" is copyright protected.
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